Financial Audits, A133 Audit Services, Annually 2012-2016

Request for Proposal (RFP) for professional auditing services, performing the annual audit of basic financial statements and the CPD's Schedule of Expendatures of Federal Awards, 2012-2016. Submitters must have verifiable experience in providing services of comparable scope and magnitude to those described in the RFP.

Specification Number:

P-12046

Title:

Financial Audits, A133 Audit Services, Annually 2012-2016

Event Date

Bid Status

Details

10/16/2012

In Review

Request to Develop Project form received in Purchasing.

10/19/2012

In Review

Assigned to Advanced Buyer. Draft RFP circulated for approvals.

10/24/2012

In Review

Project advertised.

11/07/2012

In Review

Pre-submittal meeting held; 12 people from 9 companies attended.

11/20/2012

In Review

8 proposals received.

11/27/2012

In Review

First Evaluation Committee (EC) meeting, at which the evaluation process was discussed and the proposals (minus cost proposals) distributed. Evaluations begin. Initial merit evaluations due to Purchasing for tabulation on 12/6/12. Second EC meeting scheduled for 12/11/12.

12/13/2012

In Review

Second EC meeting, rescheduled from 12/11. Results of the proposal-only review presented to the EC. A discussion of the preliminary ranking, each company, and each compan's proposal followed. Purchasing then distributed the cost proposals for review. Cost proposal scores and revised initial scores due to Purchasing 12/17/12.

12/19/2012

In Review

Third EC meeting, at which the results of the second scoring were presented to the EC. Each company, their cost proposals, and the revised ranking were discussed. The EC then decided to interview the four top-ranked firms. Purchasing working on determining the available times of EC members and room reservations.

01/03/2013

In Review

All four interviews were held; afterwards, the EC convened for the 4th time and discussed the proposals, cost proposals, and interviews of all four firms. After the meeting, Purching prepared and distributed the final evaluation forms.

01/08/2013

In Review

Purchasing received and tabulated the final scores of the EC. The results were sent via email to members of the EC, asking them to individually confirm their recommendation for award to the highest-scoring firm in this last evaluation. All confirmed.

01/16/2013

Awarded

At the 1/16/13 Board of Commissioners meeting, at the EC's recommendation, the contract for the CPD's annual audits was made to McGladrey, LLP.

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